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enforced by the courts
The Record of Marriages, (under Act Feb 27/66), is carefully preserved in this office, in good order for reference and is frequently consulted. Two additions have been made to the List of names during past month, but I have directed several parties to the County Clerk for licence to marry
I regret I cannot report the organization of any branch of "Lincoln National Temperance Association," in this Division but I am pressing the matter with some of the leading colored men here and I do not despair of success. I am sorry to report that too much of the harvest wages earned by Freedmen has found its way into barrooms and with two circus exhibitions during the month there has been more drunkenness than any previous month I have been here
I am pleased to find there is prospect of a small supply of Medicines from Dr. DeLamater Surgeon in Chief BRF&AL, for the benefit of Indigent Freedpeople. When received care shall be exercised that none save the class for whom it is intended draw upon it
The desire for reunion of families (colored) separated in years past by the vile traffic of the slave trader, is general and often, through medium of this office, successful.